I love them both. What makes them both so good is they off two alternating view points. Days was horrific in awaking, with Jim, in the aftermath of the outbreak, dealing with remants of the pure and the infected. What made that movie so horrific was knowing nothing and dealing with characters we don't meet until after this. Who they were before is not important, but who they have became. Jim is pure when we first see him, representing someone before Rage spread and, you see by the end, he's been so twisted by his experience
Spoiler:
that Selena cannot discern Jim from the infected
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28 Days is the superior film. From the directing to the acting to the writing it was a combination that doesn't happen in horror, if only a couple times.
In 28 Days Later we catch but a glimpse of the infected, leaving only with stories to fill it in. Weeks gives us a chance to see how quick it actually spreads. The way in a matter of moments it was all over and lost. The opening scene in Weeks was more intense than anything Days offered, though the tunnel scene in Days is great. The acting is not as good, though Carlyle was great and the supporting cast were good, especially in comparison to most horror/action movies. I loved the action sequences in the movie and as a zombie movie (though not classic zombies) it is really good. I loved the ending (better ending than Days) and am anxously awaiting the next in the series.
I'm looking forward to Cloverfield as well. A friend and I were watching the "more revealing trailer" (yeah, right), and when they give that very brief glimpse of the monster going behind the building, we both immediately asked, "Gamera?" and cracked up laughing.
Lordy, let's hope good ol' JJ is a bit better than to borrow that idea...heh.
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Quicktime required. You can also search YouTube for it, but the Apple one is best quality I've found as-so-far.
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I saw I Am Legend tonight, I really enjoyed it. It was much much more emotional than I thought it would be from the previews.
As a movie, I liked it.
As an adaptation of the book, it sucks ass.
They completely ruined the ending(actually the entire 2nd half) and ignored major plotlines that made the book the classic that it is. Nearly everything that struck me as a very powerful moment in the book was removed or changed so heavily (fate of his family), that for me it ended up being a vaguely similar story with the same name.
The book is very psychological, so not all of it would transfer to a film, but much of it would have been very very effective and they just ignored it. What a let down.
Now I have to try and think of it as not even being related to the book...
Where did you hear that? That's great news if it's true because the second film would have been a lot better if he was behind it. I had no idea there was even talk of doing a third.
As a movie, I liked it.
As an adaptation of the book, it sucks ass.
They completely ruined the ending(actually the entire 2nd half) and ignored major plotlines that made the book the classic that it is. Nearly everything that struck me as a very powerful moment in the book was removed or changed so heavily (fate of his family), that for me it ended up being a vaguely similar story with the same name.
The book is very psychological, so not all of it would transfer to a film, but much of it would have been very very effective and they just ignored it. What a let down.
Now I have to try and think of it as not even being related to the book...
That's pretty much happened to me with every book I've liked that's been made into a movie. I haven't seen I am Legend yet, and it's one of those I'll wait for PPV, or the DVD to come up for rent. There's a cavalcade of movies that could be rattled off where the movie was just a "good movie" if you didn't know it came from a book.
The Lord of the Rings movies come to mind. Good movies, beautifully filmed, well acted, special effects bonanza, but it would be hard to craft movies (even giving three, three hour films) that could do the books justice. While I haven't read the Legend books, I would guess the same applies. The need to make a mass-appeal movie means the need to pick the original material apart.
As a fan of comic books, also, it's a double whammy. Every time something comes to the big screen that I've read issue after issue of, I am almost always exiting the theater with "but why didn't they just..."
It's hard to be a fan of something and see it "made flesh", because we're already invested. And the people making the film are not-so-much. They have to make moola for the studio.
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Good points, all very true.
I was hopeful, with Legend only being about 180 pages long, that they would be able to translate just about everything with relative ease and not really need to make many changes. I forgot that this is Hollywood and their writers/executives always think they know better than the original authors.
Still, it is worth seeing and isn't a bad movie by any means.
As a movie, I liked it.
As an adaptation of the book, it sucks ass.
They completely ruined the ending(actually the entire 2nd half) and ignored major plotlines that made the book the classic that it is. Nearly everything that struck me as a very powerful moment in the book was removed or changed so heavily (fate of his family), that for me it ended up being a vaguely similar story with the same name.
The book is very psychological, so not all of it would transfer to a film, but much of it would have been very very effective and they just ignored it. What a let down.
Now I have to try and think of it as not even being related to the book...
That's pretty much happened to me with every book I've liked that's been made into a movie. I haven't seen I am Legend yet, and it's one of those I'll wait for PPV, or the DVD to come up for rent. There's a cavalcade of movies that could be rattled off where the movie was just a "good movie" if you didn't know it came from a book.
The Lord of the Rings movies come to mind. Good movies, beautifully filmed, well acted, special effects bonanza, but it would be hard to craft movies (even giving three, three hour films) that could do the books justice. While I haven't read the Legend books, I would guess the same applies. The need to make a mass-appeal movie means the need to pick the original material apart.
As a fan of comic books, also, it's a double whammy. Every time something comes to the big screen that I've read issue after issue of, I am almost always exiting the theater with "but why didn't they just..."
It's hard to be a fan of something and see it "made flesh", because we're already invested. And the people making the film are not-so-much. They have to make moola for the studio.
I have kinda learned to just appreciate each for their own medium. Books are just different than movies. I felt that Jurassic Park was an incredible movie, but it didn't carry even a small amount of the complexity of the book. So I decided to just like it for what it was, a really great movie. I have not read I Am Legend, but will probably get it on my list now. I loved the movie, and sometimes movies prompt people to read books they might not have in the first place.
Also, it is rumored that Boyle will return to direct the third and final film.
Let's hope Garland is writing it, also. They were both on hand with film two so this doesn't surprise me very much. I wonder where the next one will take place.
Are the movies 28 days later, and 28 weeks later related to eachother in any way? If this is addressed earlier in the thread, I apologize, I've not really been reading the thread. I haven't seen either movie, and am concerned about spoilers. I have them both in my Netflix que, do they need to be viewd in any order, if they are related to eachother?
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28 weeks later is a sequel to 28 days later. I would definately view them in order, but if you were only going to see, I would definately go with days. In my opinion it is far superior to weeks.
Where did you hear that? That's great news if it's true because the second film would have been a lot better if he was behind it. I had no idea there was even talk of doing a third.
Where did you hear that? That's great news if it's true because the second film would have been a lot better if he was behind it. I had no idea there was even talk of doing a third.
I seriously doubt Boyle will name the third installment 28 Months Later, or even set the story for the third film 28 months later for that matter. In Weeks it is revealed that the timeframe of the virus breaking out and the time that the last infected died of starvation is only a few weeks. There would be no way to justify the idea of the infected still being alive after 28 m onths...unless they decided to start taking smaller bites
Using the ending to Weeks as a starting point, I think the most likely/logical title and way to base the story of the third film is by using the header
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